Manganese Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manganese Pliers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Manganese Ingot ×3 and Phrygian Gold Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 48 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,021 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 32 Fire Crystal, 8 Earth Crystal and 8 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 87 and Goldsmith to Lv 84 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.